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New satellites, among them military and dual-use vehicles, will be added to the Russian orbiting cluster in 2009, Roskosmos said according to Interfax.

The management of the GLONASS satellite navigation system has been ineffective so far, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said at a meeting of senior officials of Roskosmos.

Entries are now being welcomed for the fourth Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition. The competition seeks to find the best solution to an interplanetary trajectory problem.

After a two-year, top to bottom renovation, the High Bay Facility of the Operations & Checkout (O&C) Building at NASA’S Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is now ready to begin preparations to build the new Orion crew exploration vehicle.

Rocket: H-IIA; Payload: Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite “Ibuki” (GOSAT), Small Demonstration Satellite-1 (SDS-1), six other microsatellites; Date: 23 January 2009, 0354 UTC; Site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and at about 16 minutes after lift-off, the separation of Ibuki was confirmed.

According to BuaNews, the date for the launch of the long-delayed SumbandilaSat science satellite has been set for 25 March aboard a Soyuz rocket that is also to carry the Meteor-M weather satellite.

NASA said it was a step closer to the first flight test of the rocket that will send humans on their way to the moon as part of the agency’s Constellation Program.